This diverse and flexible 300-hour advanced teacher training programme gives you the opportunity to continue your education and delve deeper into specialist topics of your choice, creating an advanced portfolio to master yoga teaching as a life path, career and practice.

Our mission 

Is to cultivate teachers to truly find their unique and authentic voice, supporting and inspiring you to follow your own passions within the vast subject that is yoga. We are committed to passing on our years of teaching experience and empowering yoga teachers to evolve and deepen their knowledge on their path as teachers.

A 200-hour Level 1 training is just the beginning of a teacher’s journey and our Level 2 programme is devised to ensure continued growth and evolution happens at a pace that is sustainable and attainable. The programme will continue to challenge, refuel and inspire you as a teacher, deepening your knowledge, increasing your confidence and nurturing and supporting you on your yogic path to be the best teacher you can be.

Course Price

$1600. Includes food and accommodation 30 days

A RYS 300-hour advanced training is designed to build upon and deepen the trainee’s understanding of the fundamental concepts of the practice and teaching of yoga that are generally taught at the RYS 200-hour level. A RYS 300-hour advanced training prepares its trainees to teach principles and techniques of yoga that are more advanced, more detailed, and/or subtler, and the training enables them to teach with greater skill than could reasonably be expected of a RYT 200.

The five Educational Categories as defined below are taught, also providing additional hours of study relevant to these categories. 

Techniques, Training and Practice: 50 Hours

Minimum Contact Hours: 25 hours

Minimum Contact Hours w/ Lead Trainer(s): 25 hours

You will gain an enhanced understanding and experience as compared to the content of your school's RYS 200 or foundational Techniques, Training and Practice sessions. Topics included in this category are asanas, pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation and other traditional yoga techniques. These hours are a mix between: 1) analytical training in how to teach and practice the techniques and 2) guided practice of the techniques themselves.

Teaching Methodology: 5 Hours

Minimum Contact Hours: 5 hours*

Minimum Contact Hours w/ Lead Trainer(s): 5 hours

Topics in this category are:

Communication skills such as group dynamics, time management, and the establishment of priorities and boundaries.

Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting and correcting.

Qualities of a teacher and styles

The student learning process and business aspects of teaching yoga (including marketing and legal).

Example Teaching Methodology Topics

The Five Categories of Asana: The trainee will practice and learn the key poses in each category of asana (standing poses, forward bends, backbends, twists, and inversions) and will begin to develop a relationship to both the form and the function of these different categories.

Maps of Alignment: Trainees will achieve comprehension of the alignment maps for each of the five categories of asanas through observation and experience of how the poses in each category share a common foundation, and how to build upon this foundation. Principles of Demonstrating Asanas: Discuss how effective demonstrations in class can help emphasize an alignment or other focus for the specific pose or sequence of poses.

Learning Modalities: identifying your dominant style, and learning how to teach based on others’ learning styles.

Use of Language and Voice: Lecture and discussion on active vs. passive language and the effective use of each; positive and conscious communication, and habitual speech and communication patterns.

Anatomy and Physiology: 15 Hours*

Minimum Contact Hours: 10 hours

Minimum Contact Hours w/ Lead Trainer(s): 0 hours

In this category you will learn human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) Energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.). Includes both the study of anatomy and physiology along with its application to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns, etc.).

Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics for Yoga Teachers: 30 Hours

Minimum Contact Hours: 25 hours*

Minimum Contact Hours w/ Lead Trainer(s): 0 hours

Topics in this category are further and deeper study of yoga philosophies and traditional texts (such as the Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika or Bhagavad Gita) than what was included in your school's RYS 200 syllabus content.

Yoga lifestyle, such as the precept of non-violence (ahimsa), and the concepts of dharma and karma.

Ethics for yoga teachers, such as those involving teacher – student relationships and community.

Understanding the value of teaching yoga as a service and being of service to others through yoga (seva).

*Special Requirement: A minimum of 2 of the above Contact Hours must be spent on ethics for yoga teachers.

Practicum: 30 Hours

Minimum Contact Hours: 15 hours*

Minimum Contact Hours w/ Lead Trainer(s): 5 hours

Topics in this category will be 

Practice teaching and receiving and giving feedback.

Observing others teaching. **

Assisting students while someone else is teaching.

*Special Requirement: Each trainee must spend a minimum of 5 Contact Hours actively practice teaching as the lead instructor. These hours may include the time during which the trainee is receiving feedback on his/her teaching. Time spent assisting, observing others teaching, or giving feedback to others is excluded from these hours.

**Evaluation or observation of yoga classes outside of the RYS Teacher Training constitutes Non-Contact Hours.

Ashtanga Primary Series & intermediate series postures using, Drishti, Bandhas and Breath, in vinyasa style.

1st week – Introduction to Traditional Ashtanga yoga and Vinyasa & sun salutation A & B.

2nd week – Seated sequence postures & Finishing Sequence postures.

3rd week – Intermediate series postures/ Mysore Style /Teaching methods.

4th week – Teaching by students / Feedback, Questions & Answers.

Mastering Hatha / Vinyasa Flow

Dhayan (Meditation)

Introduction of meditation and types.
Difference between concentration and meditation.
Fundamental importance of meditation.
Mind Awareness Meditation.
Om chanting
Mantra introduction
Om Namah Shivaya (Meaning & chanting)
Gayatri Mantra (Meaning & chanting)
Om Mani Padme Hum chanting
Lokah Samastah Sukinoh Bhavantu chanting
Art of self-silence Practice.
Mindfulness walking introduction
Fundamental importance of yoga Nidra.

Yoga therapy

Concept and fundamentals of Ayurveda
Meaning, definition and principles of Ayurveda.
Tridosha meaning and functions.
Agni types and functions.
Ama meaning and types.
Trimalas types and relation with tridosha.
Triguna importance and attributes.
Fundamental Relation of triguna with Tridosha.
Saptprakarti attributes, qualities.
General functions of saptprakarti and their characteristics.
Mithahara definition and meaning
Fundamentals and importance of satavic diet.
Categories of food and its explanation.
Diet according to position of sun.
Saptprakarti and Tridosha diet.
Therapy and dietary needs for arthritis.
Therapeutic use of Asanas for back problems and Disc herniation.
Osteoporosis treatment and therapy.
Asthma’s problematic area and cure.
Sinusitis therapeutic cure.
Irritable bowel syndrome therapy.
Therapy for constipation problems.
Therapeutic use of meditation for Depression.
Therapeutic use of pranayama for Anxiety Disorders
Therapeutic use of shatkarmas for Migraine.
Therapeutic use of pranayama for Amnesia disorder.

Assignments, Revision and presentation on one topic

Pranayama (Breathing Practices)

Introduction of Pranayama
Natural Breathing
Abdominal, Thoracic and Diaphragmatic breathing
Yogic breathing
Nadi shodhana
Ujjayi, Bhastika, Kapalbhati, Surya Bheda, Chandra bhedana, Sheetali, Sheetkari and Bhramari pranayama

Yoga Anatomy & Physiology

 Introduction of skeleton system & function
Anatomy of shoulder & function with the important name of muscles
Anatomy of pelvic griddle with muscles names
Spine anatomy & function/ importance in yoga practice
Respiratory system introduction/ function and problems
Circulatory system importance/ function & problems
Digestive system importance/ function & problems
Submission of assignment & revision
Practical exam : Presentation given to teacher
Written exam: Submission of assignment to teacher

Kundalini shakti introduction & function
Chakra introduction & function with the endocrine system
Nadis- the energy channel function & importance
Prana introduction & importance in organ function
Panchakosha importance in function of the body

Shatkarma (Yoga Cleansing)
Jalaneti Satkarma (Nasal cleansing with salty water)
Rubber neti (Nasal cleansing with a rubber string)
Kunjal kriya
Shankh prakshalan kriya

Bandhas (Energy Locks)
Jalandhara bandha
Moola bandha
Uddiyana bandha
Maha bandha

Mudra (Yoga Gestures)
Fundamental importance of Mudra
Jnana mudra
Vayu mudra
Bhairava mudra
Pranav mudra
Sankhmukhi mudra

Teaching Practice

Demonstration & Teaching methodology
Alignment and adjustment Instructions

Evaluation is based on

Asana and Practical Test
Attendance, Performance and Behavior

300 Hour Typical Teacher Training daily schedule

Time Classes

6:30 – 7:00 Am Shatkarma & Pranayama

7:00 – 9:00 Am Hatha/ Vinyasa flow yoga

9:00 Am Breakfast

10:00 – 11:30 Am Yoga Philosophy

12:00 – 1:00 Pm Alignment/ Adjustment/ Teaching Methodology 

1:00 – 3:00 Pm Lunch

3:00- 4:00 Pm  Yoga anatomy and physiology 

4:00 – 5:30 Pm Ashtanga Yoga

5:30 Pm Tea Break

6:00 Pm Meditation

7:00 pm Dinner